JOURNALIST

Richard Sorge

1895 - 1944

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Richard Gustavovich Sorge (Russian: Рихард Густавович Зорге, romanized: Rikhard Gustavovich Zorge; 4 October 1895 – 7 November 1944) was a German-born Russian journalist and Soviet military intelligence officer who was active before and during World War II and worked undercover as a German journalist in both Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan. His codename was "Ramsay" (Рамза́й). Sorge is known for his service in Japan in 1940 and 1941, when he provided information about Adolf Hitler's plan to attack the Soviet Union. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Sorge has received more than 1,288,786 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Richard Sorge is the 2nd most popular journalist, the 5th most popular biography from Azerbaijan (down from 3rd in 2019) and the most popular Azerbaijani Journalist.

Richard Sorge was a Soviet spy who was instrumental in exposing the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

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  • 70.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among JOURNALISTS

Among journalists, Richard Sorge ranks 2 out of 196. Before him are Robert Capa. After him are Oriana Fallaci, François-Noël Babeuf, Gianni Rodari, Joseph Pulitzer, Sebastião Salgado, Gerda Taro, Anna Politkovskaya, Robert Guérin, Julian Assange, and Dorothea Lange.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Richard Sorge ranks 8. Before him are Juan Perón, Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, Carl Orff, Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Amin al-Husseini, and Buster Keaton. After him are Ernst Jünger, Wilm Hosenfeld, Jiddu Krishnamurti, Max Horkheimer, Anna Freud, and Mikhail Bakhtin. Among people deceased in 1944, Richard Sorge ranks 13. Before him are Claus von Stauffenberg, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, Abdulmejid II, William James Sidis, Reza Shah, and Günther von Kluge. After him are Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Charles Glover Barkla, Michael Wittmann, Alexis Carrel, Marc Bloch, and Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark.

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In Azerbaijan

Among people born in Azerbaijan, Richard Sorge ranks 5 out of 232. Before him are Heydar Aliyev (1923), Nizami Ganjavi (1141), Ilham Aliyev (1961), and Lev Landau (1908). After him are Mstislav Rostropovich (1927), Arghun (1250), Garry Kasparov (1963), Imadaddin Nasimi (1369), Abulfaz Elchibey (1938), Nadezhda Alliluyeva (1901), and Zecharia Sitchin (1920).

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Among JOURNALISTS In Azerbaijan

Among journalists born in Azerbaijan, Richard Sorge ranks 1. After him are Chingiz Mustafayev (1960), and Khadija Ismayilova (1976).

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